Childhood Quotes
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Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.
Sara Bareilles
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I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.
Daryl Sabara
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Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
J. Michael Straczynski
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
Barbara Corcoran
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My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
Karl Lagerfeld
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A beautiful eyelash is an important adjunct to the eye. The lashes may be lengthened by trimming them occasionally in childhood. Care should be taken that this trimming is done neatly and evenly, and especially that the points of the scissors do not penetrate the eye.
Eliza Bisbee Duffey
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Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
Amy Klobuchar
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I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.
Jesse McCartney
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
Bayard Taylor
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All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.
Disha Patani
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
Taiye Selasi
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It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.
Matt Dillon
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
Tamsin Greig
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To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
Charles Baudelaire
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
Beau Mirchoff
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Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
Donna Brazile
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We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.
David Elkind
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
Beatrix Potter
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
Karen Salmansohn
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I had a normal childhood where I was able to cultivate my own creativity, and I don't think I would have been ready for this crazy business at 8 years old.
Matt Bomer
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles